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Summer Reading at the MCBA Visual Journal Collective
Above: Pentel Pocket Brush Pen sketch with gouache. This is a quick sketch I made using colors set out for another project—forcing myself to use pigments I don't normally use. Shinola Sketchbook test journal; spread 16 x 9.5 inches. Tonight at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts the MCBA Visual Journal […]
The Eighth MCBA Visual Journal Collective’s Portrait Party: Monday, January 18
It’s that time of year again—Monday, January 18 is the eighth annual MCBA Visual Journal Collective’s Portrait Party. Join us from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m for great fun, sketching, and bookmaking. (Note our earlier starting time for this special event.) In two and a half hours we will not only make the content for our […]
Roz Stendahl Talks about International Fake Journal Month at the March MCBA Visual Journal Collective
Left: This year's "button/slogan." Some folks pay attention to the tag lines when creating their fake journals, others don't. You'll find out why we have them at the meeting. It's almost April, and of course April is International Fake Journal Month. What's that you ask? Well maybe you need to attend the Monday, March 16, […]
The Seventh Annual MCBA Visual Journal Collective Portrait Party Is Monday, January 19, 2014
Left: Brush pen sketch of Rimbaud. Just because Rimbaud won't be there is no reason you shouldn't attend the Seventh Annual MCBA Visual Journal Collective Portrait Party. Not only will attendees partner up to sketch each other, but the resultant paired portraits will be pasted up to print across the spread from each other in […]
Update on the October MCBA Visual Journal Collective Meeting
Above: My "sketchnotes" from the October meeting. A spread in a 5 x 7 inch handmade book—made with Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Paper. At the October meeting of the MCBA Visual Journal Collective we watched the "Sketchnotes" DVD by Mike Rhode. (My review of the book by the same title is at this link.) […]
The Sixth Minnesota State Fair Sketch Out—August 23 and 26, 2014
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Buttons for the Sixth Minnesota State Fair Sketch Out Have Arrived
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2014 Summer Reading Suggestions from the MCBA Visual Journal Collective
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Wrapping up the Not-So-Blank-Page Journal Project
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Update on the Not-So-Blank-Page Journal Project of the MCBA Visual Journal Collective
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